[155247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco 7200 PCI Limitations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Fri Aug 3 09:54:06 2012
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:53:08 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: shthead <lists@shthead.com>
In-Reply-To: <501B7F86.1090709@shthead.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
shthead wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a 7200 series router (7204) here and I am trying to figure out
> something with it. Currently the router has a NPE-G1 card in it, giving
> it 3 gig interfaces but I need an extra gig interface on it to make 4.
>
> Having a look around the available options are either get a PA-GE card
> that fits into one of the slots on the router or to get a C7200-I/O-GE+E
> (I/O controller with a gbit port on it).
I would go with the Gig IO controller.
But you are never going to push 4gbit of traffic through this box ever.
You probably wont break 500mbps.
Or lower, depending on your features.
So you might as well use a one or two gig ports trunked to a switch.
And if that switch is something like a 3550, then you might have some
interesting options.
Joe
